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Can't see how that is true. The amount of abandonware games on windows is staggering. Let alone the unsupported legacy stack of apis in windows NT. If mega corp

Can't see how that is true. The amount of abandonware games on windows is staggering. Let alone the unsupported legacy stack of apis in windows NT. If mega corp Microsoft doesn't follow these rules in the slightest... I think the foss devs will be fine

npteljes 11mo ago
For one, CD Projekt would have been sued if this was the case. If there ever was a broken game release, Cyberpunk 2077 was one, with a staggering amount of players complaining about game breaking bugs. And those didn't go away for a good while too. The only thing that happened is that the investors sued the company. As in, the only ones in a proper legal relationship with the company. None of this nonsense of software support / warranty that OP asserts.
- sylware 11mo ago
  You are being seriously dishonnest. AI? cyberpunk has had technical support for windows for ages, look they payed devs to fixed it FOR WINDOWS. Proton has ZERO, nil, nada, nothing. Valve has to come clean about this, or if threatening too much big tech market, you are giving them a nice legal leverage... foolish.
  - npteljes 11mo ago
    Valve is clean enough. They develop and support Proton. Their stance, and the working state of Proton is quite clear. They run the Deck Verified program, where they ascertain on how well the software from their store works on the deck, via Proton. In case you are wondering on how they go about this, you can learn here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat
sylware 11mo ago
You are wrong (or evil). foss, as is, is free as in free beer. There is no sale. It has not to be compared with sold pieces of software like "games" and windows. And microsoft is doing technical support over some significant (non scammy timeframe) with EOS happening over long period of time (probably legal). proton even being the same kind of software diarrhea than windows, it is still "different" and needs specific effort to maintain compatibility but it has ZERO official technical support, nil, nada, nothing. It is an extreme case and clear cut case. Valve has to come clean about it, as it may backfire.

npteljes 11mo ago

For one, CD Projekt would have been sued if this was the case. If there ever was a broken game release, Cyberpunk 2077 was one, with a staggering amount of players complaining about game breaking bugs. And those didn't go away for a good while too. The only thing that happened is that the investors sued the company. As in, the only ones in a proper legal relationship with the company. None of this nonsense of software support / warranty that OP asserts.

sylware 11mo ago
You are being seriously dishonnest. AI? cyberpunk has had technical support for windows for ages, look they payed devs to fixed it FOR WINDOWS. Proton has ZERO, nil, nada, nothing. Valve has to come clean about this, or if threatening too much big tech market, you are giving them a nice legal leverage... foolish.
- npteljes 11mo ago
  Valve is clean enough. They develop and support Proton. Their stance, and the working state of Proton is quite clear. They run the Deck Verified program, where they ascertain on how well the software from their store works on the deck, via Proton. In case you are wondering on how they go about this, you can learn here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat

sylware 11mo ago

You are wrong (or evil). foss, as is, is free as in free beer. There is no sale. It has not to be compared with sold pieces of software like "games" and windows. And microsoft is doing technical support over some significant (non scammy timeframe) with EOS happening over long period of time (probably legal). proton even being the same kind of software diarrhea than windows, it is still "different" and needs specific effort to maintain compatibility but it has ZERO official technical support, nil, nada, nothing. It is an extreme case and clear cut case. Valve has to come clean about it, as it may backfire.